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Dust Fleet

Orbiting Disco · indie.io · 2023-08-23

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IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Aug 23, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.

Dust Fleet is an Indie and Strategy game released in 2023, priced at $6.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (76% of 231 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000.

1
playing now
76%
positive of 231 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

It's the 24th century and the colonization of space is not going well. Hyperspace opened the door to the stars, but habitable worlds are few and far in between, overpopulation is still rampant, and our civilization's appetite for resources has only increased. For over a hundred years, the incredibly rich Dust Zone sated this endless appetite, jointly controlled by the United Earth Nations and the Zone Mining Cooperative. But humanity’s fighting chance only lasted for a short hundred years. Now, it has gone dark. Freighters stopped arriving with supply hauls and humanity is facing an unprecede(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 33 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 3% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.6k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 231 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$6.99-65%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.50 at GameBillet (2026-08-14) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 161 of 210 observed days · $1.49 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
242420232026Week of 2023-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 5 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 5 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
162Aug 2023Aug 2026Aug 2023 — avg 16 · peak 57Sep 2023 — avg 5 · peak 26Oct 2023 — avg 4 · peak 13Nov 2023 — avg 4 · peak 11Dec 2023 — avg 2 · peak 9Jan 2024 — avg 7 · peak 24Feb 2024 — avg 4 · peak 12Mar 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Apr 2024 — avg 4 · peak 14May 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13Jun 2024 — avg 3 · peak 13Jul 2024 — avg 5 · peak 14Aug 2024 — avg 3 · peak 9Sep 2024 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Nov 2024 — avg 2 · peak 8Dec 2024 — avg 2 · peak 6Jan 2025 — avg 2 · peak 9Feb 2025 — avg 2 · peak 7Mar 2025 — avg 3 · peak 12Apr 2025 — avg 3 · peak 11May 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Jun 2025 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2025 — avg 5 · peak 18Aug 2025 — avg 4 · peak 10Sep 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Oct 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Nov 2025 — avg 4 · peak 14Dec 2025 — avg 3 · peak 11Jan 2026 — avg 4 · peak 11Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 12Mar 2026 — avg 3 · peak 12Apr 2026 — avg 4 · peak 11May 2026 — avg 4 · peak 10Jun 2026 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2026 — avg 3 · peak 6Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$5.682023-08-182026-10-142023-08-18 — best price $19.992023-10-03 — best price $15.892023-11-01 — best price $13.392023-12-01 — best price $14.692024-01-09 — best price $15.992024-02-13 — best price $15.892024-03-14 — best price $12.992024-04-05 — best price $11.892024-05-03 — best price $11.992024-06-04 — best price $17.402024-07-08 — best price $15.072024-08-02 — best price $9.892024-09-10 — best price $11.792024-10-17 — best price $15.072024-11-27 — best price $9.992025-01-06 — best price $8.372025-02-13 — best price $8.992025-03-13 — best price $7.752025-04-13 — best price $19.992025-05-24 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-08-19 — best price $7.122025-09-23 — best price $19.992025-10-24 — best price $14.692025-11-20 — best price $7.992025-12-18 — best price $6.202026-01-23 — best price $7.992026-02-28 — best price $7.992026-04-01 — best price $6.992026-04-29 — best price $19.992026-05-21 — best price $6.652026-06-16 — best price $15.892026-07-22 — best price $19.992026-08-20 — best price $13.942026-09-05 — best price $6.992026-09-20 — best price $6.992026-10-05 — best price $6.992026-10-14 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

41
achievements tracked
56.1%
earned "Cruiser hunter"
16.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, German, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1334%41

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3D4XIndieSpaceSci-fiWargameMilitaryStrategyTacticalReal-Time

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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